Limerence Is a Losing Game
Introduction
This is the introduction to my potential memoir. It’s the book I wish someone had written for me. It won’t be an easy write or an easy read. We’ll see what happens.
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This may be THE book I need to write. I am a storyteller by both trade and by nature. Most of the stories I’ve had published (also most of the stories I haven’t had published) are of the fictional variety. The old saying “the truth is stranger than fiction” is no lie. My life has been exceedingly strange and often brutal. Many times the pain already cutting to the core of my soul was made all the sharper by a phenomenon called limerence.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth...
Psychologist Dorothy Tennov coined the term limerence in her 1979 book, Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love. The phenomenon is discussed extensively by Anna Runkle, AKA The Crappy Childhood Fairy, on her YouTube channel.
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